27.2.10

Our talks and visual arts in Ashville created a platform for sharing ideas and help each other go together deeper in understanding of social war around the planet and our role in the global social struggles.

The center of our open public talks, dialogues, cultural work, meetings, networking and community assemblies was Firestorm, an anarchist collective work café, bookshop and venue for events decorated with an amazing poster exhibition of Just Seeds / Celebrate People's History. Firestorm is a wonderful concept created by Anarchists that refuse to work in the commercial market and prefer creating a legal café / restaurant / bookshop business company together… In this project they can accommodate their dreams as also offer to the society of their town the live example of horizontal non exploitative work, the atmosphere of mutual help, social care and welcoming of all different ages, cultural and economical backgrounds in a place of social struggle and arising of critical mind… The Firestorm can be another wonderful example for all possible ways people can invent and put in try to escape the totalitarianism of United States of America regime, the monopoly of the elite on the creation of social content and the complete lack of public, social places for the creation of honest, open public social life .

In the first day of our tour in Asheville the influential young anarchist writer Peter Gelderloos did a wonderful open public lecture about Global Warming…Void Optical Art Laboratory created a mystic atmosphere with environmental abstract visual arts. It was a talk, a public dialogue and a multi media show for the destruction of earth, the struggle against the elite and all the possible revolutionary solutions on the problem of destruction of earth by capitalism and representative democracy. You can find some of the ideas of Peter Gelderloos shared with us in his lecture here: http://voidmirror.blogspot.com/2010/02/more-wood-for-fire-capitalist-solutions.html

Meetings with environmental activists and people from local struggles took place after the end of the talk...

The second day of our events in Asheville was a day dedicated to the Greek insurrection. Under a huge cinema screen for projecting hundreds of photos from December 2008 & 2009 revolt people had the opportunity speaking with Greek comrades about all possible questions and misunderstandings about the strategies and methodologies of social struggle in Greece for more than 2 and a half hours. We hope that the comrades of Asheville benefit from our meeting and they will find all possible ways to expand the counter-information and create new assemblies that will bring people from all ages and all social backgrounds to their lines.

The important thing for us is to imagine and construct new forms of struggle depending on the social context. But we have also always be able to resist to the repression and the limitations that our social background can enforce to us. We should not forget the reasons, the causes of our struggles and the causes that make us select that path of fight. We need to be able focus on the preparation and the process of eliminating capitalism even if we are taking part in a small assembly of an anarchist bookshop, in a meeting of anarchist workers, in a local struggle of the people of our city.

A short introduction about the social struggle in Greece and the December 2008 revolts :

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VOID MIRROR [theory, info, global movement news]

[click on the photo] VOID MIRROR international digital magazine edited by Void Network >>>> The International Freedom Battalion of Rojava and participation from greece >>> This is a response of the Revolutionary Union for Internationalist Solidarity (from greece) and the International Freedom Battalion's full statement upon the announcement of it's creation. [http://voidmirror.blogspot.com]

HOW TO ORGANIZE AN OPEN PUBLIC CAMP AND PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY

[click on the image ] Conversation with 'Some of the Participators of the General Assembly of Athens Greece'. This conversation is an attempt to open up the process of the General Assemblies taking place in Athens on Syntagma Square, like an engine, in order to understand how it developed, and how it works. It touches on the problems they have faced, the barriers of having fixed ideological agendas, the question of restricting media access, of formulating respect, creating the form for a new political speech, drawing lots, voting, making resolutions, taking collective actions, establishing different thematic groups, working groups, allowing conflict and arguments, constructing a non-representative political agency, avoiding demands, …. Please listen / share / republish / distribute this interview

Void Network is a cultural, political and philosophical collective that first appeared in 1990 in Athens / Greece with aim the radicalization of every day life, the social question, the arising of critical mind, the ecstatic collective symbiosis, the visibility of diversity, the participation to the emancipatory social struggles of our timesand the creation of Utopian Public Environments by non-employed cultural activists. Other aims are the participation and creation of social centers, self-organized autonomus spaces, the construction of situations in Public Space and the Ephemeral Art.

After 1998 and through the creation of political global festivals and the participation of Void Network to the emancipatory / anarchist / autonomus "Movement Against the Globalization of Capitalism" the Void Network established contacts and creative cells in U.S.A, U.K., Mexico,Brasil, Germany, Bulgaria, Spain

To Get To The Other Side // e-Book

To Get To The Other Side e-book is a journey through Europe and its anarchist movements

WE ARE AN IMAGE FROM THE FUTURE

WE ARE AN IMAGE FROM THE FUTURE The Greek Revolt of December 2008 //////// new book edited by A.G.Schwarz, Tasos Sagris & Void Network Published by A.K.PRESS released early March 2010 [to read long fragments of the book click on the image]

"We Are an Image From The Future" in Germany // Wir sind ein Bild der Zukunft

READ TEXT ONLINE: WE ARE AN IMAGE FROM THE FUTURE [THE GREEK REVOLT OF DECEMBER 2008 ]

[ click on the image] Even though an online reading can never capture the experience of reading a book, even though in this link there are not exisiting the wonderfull photos of the book....we propose you to spend some time reading the text of the book and share the link of the whole text of the book in digital form with your friends and comrades. [ click on the image]

NOSOTROS-FREE SOCIAL SPACE

From 2005 Void Network participates to the wonderfull experiment of the creation, sustaining and expanding of the social center NOSOTROS, a free social space in the center of Athens city / Greece at Themistokleous 66 st. in the world known Exarchia area. Including more than 15 different free lessons per year with more than 300 students, a radio station, fair trade bio-market, daily collective kitchen, cafe, bar, daily events programme, concerts, lectures, d.j. sets, workshops, art exhibitions, free cinema, photography lab, free internet accesss, theatre shows and all kinds of political, social and art activities Nosotros Free Social Space is a 2 floor vibrating building with a huge terrace overlooking square Exarchia. The Open Public General Assembly of Nosotros takes place every week in Monday at 21.00 >>>>> [click on the image for the site of Nosotros]

the eros effect by george katsiafikas

Void Network invites all friends to read the essay "Eros Effesct" by George Katsiafikas [click on the image]

the joy of the revolution by ken knabb

Voidness publications and Void Network proudly announces the beggining of the translation of the book "The Joy of Revolution" by Ken Knabb and the planning of publishing the book in Greek language. You can read the book in English language here [click on the image]

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OCCUPIED SELF-ORGANIZED LIBERATED PARK IN EXARCHIA AREA ATHENS GREECE

[click on the image] Void Network participates and works together with many other activists, collectives and people from the first days of March 2009 until now for the creation, protection and sustaining of a Liberated Open Public Space, an Occupied Urban Space, a collective vision that comes true, the SELF ORGANIZED OCCUPIED PARK OF EXARCHIA in Athens Greece>>> The Occupied Park Of Exarchia is in the centre of Athens city / near metro station Panepistimio on Harilaou Trikoupi rd. / THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PARK TAKES PLACE EVERY WEDNESDAY IN about 19.30 >>>YOU ARE ALL WELCOME to participate in the creation of the park with your ideas, your dreams, your efforts

VOID NETWORK MANIFESTO

[click on the photo] This is the Void Network Manifesto in English language. It tries to offer some clear views about the cultural activism and the philosophy of political and social actions of the international affinity group Void Network

"YOU TALK ABOUT MATERIAL DAMAGES WE SPEAK ABOUT HUMAN LIFES'

[click on the image] "YOU TALK ABOUT MATERIAL DAMAGES WE SPEAK ABOUT HUMAN LIFES' (Perceptions of Violence Among Greek Anarchist Groups) is a lecture by Anthropology Lab of Void Network prepared as a participation for the ''Youth Violence and Identities Conference'' in 14-15 May 2009 in University of Kent . [to read the lecture in English language / click on the image]

VOID OPTICAL ART LABORATORY

click on the image to navigate in Void Network channel at YouTube including events documentation and VOID ART >> Created in the early days of '90s VOID OPTICAL ART LABORATORY is a creative meeting point, an open laboratory of visual artists, art thinkers and cultural activists. Through constant sharing of resources, machines, archives, images, ideas and visions the Void Network artists create cross-platform collaborations and multi screens shows, especialy created for the events of the collective, using improvisational shows on many different screens and synchronized projections producing moments where the visual arts melts into the sound, the light shows and the ectstatic energy of the enthousiastic crowd. This is not an Art-Show...This is our Life!

VOID OPTICAL ART LABORATORY

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GLOBAL EYE [LONDON section of VOID NETWORK]

[click on the image] This is the "myspace" page of GLOBAL EYE, theEnglish section of Void Network>>> GLOBAL EYE is a group of multi media cultural activists and space travellers as also a huge database of images, video art, ideas, visions and practices offered to anyone on this planet through meetings, free shows, exhibitions, open sharing, collective life and tribal ecstatic experience>>>http://www.myspace.com/globaleye [ for more info click on the image]

BRASIL section of VOID NETWORK / RIO DE JANEIRO

[click on the photo] This is the blog of Brasilian section of Void Network written in Portugese language. As main goals of Brasil Void Network cell are to bring in contact the Brasilian society with the ideas and actions of Void Network in all the world, establish contacts, collaborations and links with activists and artists from Latin America, work as an observatory for Amazon Rain Forest and express in all ways solidarity for the poor populations of South America>>> http://voidbrasil.blogspot.com [click on the image]

CULTURES OF RESISTANCE

[click on the image ] Worldwide, people from all walks of life are finding creative ways to oppose war and promote peace, justice, and sustainability. Culture—including film, music, and food—is fertile terrain for this struggle. Education that nourishes a critical mind and fortifies the soul is just as essential. Cultures of Resistance (http://www.culturesofresistance.org/) is the name of both a feature documentary and an activist network. [click on the image]

MAGAZIN NETWORK

The Magazine Network is a is part of a very informal, loose and more or less working association of individuals, condemning capitalism in all its forms and expressions, but currently too nihilistic, lazy, damaged or uninspired to proceed to a formal coalition while mistrusting all existing political structures (including its own). Still under construction!". To see the video actions of Magazin click on the photo

glass bead collective // laboratory for multi media cultural activism

Glassbead Collective (GBC), based in New York City, brings together individuals from diverse academic and professional backgrounds including video art, film, theater, architecture, photography, music, mathematics, fine arts and philosophy to create works which re-contextualize culture and the world in which we find ourselves today. GBC was founded in 2002. They have since produced various live art events and films experimenting with a multi-disciplinary approach to contemporary issues (mixing visual and literary narratives in real time) as well as created live visuals performances for events and autonomus public zones

VAT_OM OPTICAL LAB Void Art Laboratory

[click on the image] VAT_OM Void Art Laboratory (a.k.a. Glarax) is a v.j., cultural activist, multi media artist and official member of VOID OPTICAL ART LABORATORY. He is one of the most influential visual artists of the Void Network galaxy, focus mainly in space art, ecological and political themes as also in spiritual and meditative psychedelic art

ECSTATIC POETRY Void Network blog by SISSY DOUTSIOU

freeart zone

FREEART ZONE This blog is a zone of collective share for artists, friends and rebels. It is a free space for sharing new infos, confused thoughts, estethic images of life,conceived critisism and art for free and free.Or just to be able to reach everybody beyond at times of desert.

VOID NETWORK RADIO INTERVIEW

[click on the image] This is a 45 minutes digital radio inteview given by two members of Void Network (in ENGLISH language) during the Total Freedom tour in Mexico in November 2008, to RADIO DIGNA, an autonomous digital radio station of Mexican Resistance Movement from Baja California, Mexico. In this interview Void Network talks about Autonomia in Europe, about the anarchist movement and the the Antifascist struggle in Greece, about our experience of travelling in Zapatista Autonomous areas in Chiapas and the idas, the visions and the dreams are hidden inside the cultural work of our collective [click on the image]

VOID MIRROR

[click on the image] >>>>Navigate in VOID MIRROR, the international news and global radical theory Void Network blog...ALL MAILS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, COMMUNIQUES, MUSIC, VIDEO ART and THEORY ESSAYS ARE MOST WELCOME...USE THE EMAIL OF VOID NETWORK: voidinternational@gmail.com COME IN CONTACT with http://voidmirror.blogspot.com

THE END OF THE WORLD OF THE SPECTACLE

if we don't want to participate in the spectacle of the end of the world we will have to work towards the end of the world of the spectacle...The spectacle is where all the relations, the needs, the dreams, the wishes are turned into profitable commodity, into an obligation, into a blackmail....There life turns into a spectacle of real life and the world turns into an endless desert

D.J. CRYSTAL ZERO

[click on the image]>>>>>>> D.J. CRYSTAL ZERO from Void Network started organize underground rave parties in 1993 and he is one of the pioneer d.j.s in space ambient and psychedelic trance global scene. This is his myspace page

D.J. NIKITAS

[click on the image] >>>>>>>>>>>D.J. NIKITAS started his d.j.s performances in the Void Network psychedelic trance rave festivals in the end of 90s in the age of 17 years old. From that days he evolved in one of the best d.j.s in Greece blending explosive psychedelic progressive sounds with the spirituality of a sound alchemist. This is his myspace page

D.J. SISSY STARDUST

[click on the image] When D.J. SISSY STARDUST came in Athens in 2005 after 7 years in England studying Astrophysics (and psychedelics) the psychedelic ambient scene was small and non-popular. Some years after with the great help of this important, creative and enthousiastic artist the psy-ambient scene is becoming stronger and stronger, and SISSY STARDUST becomes one of the most important d.j.s of atmospheric thoughtfull electronica and intelligent space music in the underground scene of Athens

D.J. HIGHPNO

D.J. HIGHPNO is one of the finest new psychedelic trance and psy full-on d.j.s in the Void Network galaxy

D.J. IRAKLIS MINDPHASER

[click on the image] D.J. IRAKLIS MINDPHASER is one of the most creative organizers and d.j.s in european psychedelic trance scene. With the NATURAL HIGH collective as also with his participation in the events of Void Network he helps the Greek psy-trance scene to be one of the strongest underground scenes in the world

NATURAL HIGH family

[click on the image] The open collaboration and mutual help between Void Network and NATURAL HIGH familiy after 2000 manifested some amazing massive raves (like Electric Universe & Man With No Name free concerts with more than 7000 people and many more) as also helped to appear some wonderfull spiritual friendship among the cultural activists of the two collectives

FUNXION DRUM 'N BASS CREW

[click on the image] From 2001 until today FUNXION Drum 'n Bass crew share some wonderfull spiritual friendship with Void Network cultural activists. We created many great events together until now, featuring travelling in Europe for festivals and concerts. The link is the myspace page of the collective.